How to identify Mulberry
Identify Mulberry by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Cultivated for silkworm feed (mulberry).
- Confirm leaf shape: Ovate.
- Confirm leaf margin: Lobed.
- In India, compare location records such as Assam, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Moraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Mulberry.
Plant Details
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- OvaterecordedEgg-shaped, broader near the base.“The leaves themselves are usually ovate but sometimes lobed, coming to a narrow point, making them somewhere between caudate and acuminate.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- LobedrecordedThe edge is divided into rounded or pointed sections that don't reach the midrib.“The leaves themselves are usually ovate but sometimes lobed, coming to a narrow point, making them somewhere between caudate and acuminate.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mulberry itself; the rest are typical of the Moraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Catkin
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Moraceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Mulberry
Mulberry (Morus indica) is a shrub in the Moraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and 8 other states.
Moraceae
Fig/Mulberry family
Mulberry belongs to the Moraceae family.
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